TLP was killing my server and all the other sites I was hosting, hence why I let the domain lapse last week, the day TLP was down all the other sites on this server went really great, renewed the domain and everythings running s**t again - so I've removed around 13,000 banned IP's and hosts as searching the database was killing everything, means though that a few thousand spammers are unbanned and that number is the number of active and not banned members - I'm deleting them all but there's no way to automate it, best I can do is 50 at a time so every now and then it will drop and will finally be finished when it gets back to the 1026 or round about - I've upgraded the forum software and installed http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1519 to cut down on the members joining up